On the heels of our exclusive news that Hooters plans to open their second ever "hoots" restaurant in the new Fuqua Development project Madison Yards on Memorial Drive in Reynoldstown, comes news that a host of other new eateries are coming to the project, too!
Taqueria Tsunami, a Marietta-based chain from Fork U Concepts, currently with seven OTP locations, will return ITP with a roughly 3,400 square foot space in the new development. The restaurant, which describes itself as a "Latin-Asian Kitchen," will occupy a space previously leased to failed pizzeria The Local Pizzaiolo, which recently closed and sold its Westside location and is marketing its Toco Hills restaurant for sale. The first Taqueria Tsunami opened off Peachtree Road near Peachtree Battle in mid 2011 and closed in late 2012. Its former space is today home to neighborhood favorite 1Kept. The chain has found greater success OTP, and over the past year or so opened a pair of new locations in East Cobb and Sandy Springs. A ninth location is expected to open in the coming months at Peachtree Corners Town Center, another Fuqua Development project, off Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree Corners.
Marlow's Tavern will also open in the project, marking the Atlanta-based chain's nineteenth location in Georgia and 25th overall. The casual American restaurant serves a wide variety of classic American fare and has proved popular both intown with a location in Midtown, and OTP, with locations in places like Alpharetta, Duluth and East Cobb, among others.
Steel City Pops, a Birmingham-based purveyor of gourmet popsicles, plans to open a small shop in the center as well. The new shop will be the first satellite store to the company's "kitchen store," which opened in September 2017 just off the square in Downtown Decatur. Steel City Pops is similar in some ways to Atlanta's King of Pops, but offers far more customization and different seasonal flavors, too, like their Horchata and Avocado, personal favorites of ToNeTo Atlanta.
Curry Up Now, a quick-serve Indian restaurant, will also open in the project and is one of three that Atlanta franchisee and former Midtown Tavern owner Hemant Suri plans to open in the area in the coming years. The other two planned locations are slated for The Interlock on Howell Mill at 14 Street, and at North Decatur Square near Decatur.
Salata, a self described "salad kitchen," will also open a new outpost in the project. The new Salata marks the Texas-based chain's eighth location in metro Atlanta, following the recent debut at Peachtree Corners Town Center. The quick-serve restaurant is essentially a downsized Sweet Tomatoes, and is perhaps over-anticipating the demand for their fare in the market.
Chef Richard Tang of Char Korean Bar & Grill in Inman Park, along with former Ba Bellies chef Mike Yang, plan to open a new restaurant described only an "Asian seafood house" in the development as well. Sources close to the project indicate it will be a "seafood boil" of sorts and that it should open in late summer. The as yet unnamed restaurant would be the second in the "Tang Hospitality Group," an LLC Tang created last year which seems to indicate there may be more concepts (or additional locations) to come.
Breakfast and lunch eatery First Watch also plans to open a new roughly 4,200 square foot space in Madison Yards and will debut their new concept to the Atlanta market. (A lease is reportedly close but not yet final.) Modeled after a location the company opened last fall in the Nashville area, the new First Watch will be larger than their typical locations and will offer a bar/beverage counter serving specialty coffee drinks like cappuccinos, lattes and espressos. The bar will also offer brunch cocktails like a vodka and kale tonic – a variation of the restaurant’s popular kale tonic drink featuring Stoli vodka, as well as classic brunch cocktails like Mimosas and Bloody Marys. Wine is also available, as are kombucha and draft beer.
Publix will likely be among the first openings in the project and is currently slated to make their debut in early May, but possibly later, depending on whether the weather behaves. Other tenants like the AMC Theatres, the restaurants and other businesses, are slated to open starting in late spring.
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